Norah Phillips, Baroness Phillips

Norah Mary Phillips, Baroness Phillips, JP (née Lusher; 12 August 1910 – 14 August 1992^[1]) was a British Labour Party politician.

Phillips was educated at Hampton Training College as a teacher. She became active in her local Fulham Labour Party and in 1930 married fellow Fulham activist Morgan Phillips,^[1] a former miner and later the General Secretary of the Labour Party 1944–1961. They had a son and a daughter, Gwyneth Dunwoody, who became a long-serving Labour Member of Parliament.

Phillips was a long-serving London magistrate and co-founder of the National Association of Women's Clubs (1935).^[2] She was made a life peer on 21 December 1964 as Baroness Phillips, of Fulham in the County of London^[3] and was the first female government whip in the House of Lords, as Baroness-in-Waiting 1965–70.

She championed consumer issues and in 1965 founded the Housewives Trust to help shoppers obtain better value for money.^[2] In 1977 she became director of the Association for the Prevention of Theft in Shops.^[1]

She served as Lord Lieutenant of Greater London from 1978 to 1985.^[1]

References

1. "Obituary: Baroness Phillips". The Independent. 16 August 1992. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
2. "The Morning Record – Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
3. "No. 43522". The London Gazette. 22 December 1964. p. 10933.

Political offices
Preceded by The Lord Beswick	Baroness-in-Waiting 1965–1970	Succeeded by New government
Honorary titles
Preceded by The Lord Elworthy	Lord Lieutenant of Greater London 1978–1986	Succeeded by Edwin Bramall